Amazon Kinesis controls
These controls are related to Kinesis resources.
These controls may not be available in all Amazon Web Services Regions. For more information, see Availability of controls by Region.
[Kinesis.1] Kinesis streams should be encrypted at rest
Related requirements: NIST.800-53.r5 CA-9(1), NIST.800-53.r5 CM-3(6), NIST.800-53.r5 SC-13, NIST.800-53.r5 SC-28, NIST.800-53.r5 SC-28(1), NIST.800-53.r5 SC-7(10), NIST.800-53.r5 SI-7(6)
Category: Protect > Data protection > Encryption of data at rest
Severity: Medium
Resource type:
AWS::Kinesis::Stream
Amazon Config rule:
kinesis-stream-encrypted
Schedule type: Change triggered
Parameters: None
This control checks if Kinesis Data Streams are encrypted at rest with server-side encryption. This control fails if a Kinesis stream is not encrypted at rest with server-side encryption.
Server-side encryption is a feature in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams that automatically encrypts data before it's at rest by using an Amazon KMS key. Data is encrypted before it's written to the Kinesis stream storage layer, and decrypted after it's retrieved from storage. As a result, your data is encrypted at rest within the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams service.
Remediation
For information about enabling server-side encryption for Kinesis streams, see How do I get started with server-side encryption? in the Amazon Kinesis Developer Guide.
[Kinesis.2] Kinesis streams should be tagged
Category: Identify > Inventory > Tagging
Severity: Low
Resource type:
Amazon::Kinesis::Stream
Amazon Configrule: tagged-kinesis-stream (custom Security Hub rule)
Schedule type: Change triggered
Parameters:
| Parameter | Description | Type | Allowed custom values | Security Hub default value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
requiredTagKeys
|
List of non-system tag keys that the evaluated resource must contain. Tag keys are case sensitive. | StringList | List of tags that meet Amazon requirements | No default value |
This control checks whether an Amazon Kinesis data stream has tags with the specific keys defined in the parameter
requiredTagKeys. The control fails if the data stream doesn’t have any tag keys or if it doesn’t have all the keys specified in the
parameter requiredTagKeys. If the parameter requiredTagKeys isn't provided, the control only checks for the existence
of a tag key and fails if the data stream isn't tagged with any key. System tags, which are automatically applied and begin with aws:,
are ignored.
A tag is a label that you assign to an Amazon resource, and it consists of a key and an optional value. You can create tags to categorize resources by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria. Tags can help you identify, organize, search for, and filter resources. Tagging also helps you track accountable resource owners for actions and notifications. When you use tagging, you can implement attribute-based access control (ABAC) as an authorization strategy, which defines permissions based on tags. You can attach tags to IAM entities (users or roles) and to Amazon resources. You can create a single ABAC policy or a separate set of policies for your IAM principals. You can design these ABAC policies to allow operations when the principal's tag matches the resource tag. For more information, see What is ABAC for Amazon? in the IAM User Guide.
Note
Don’t add personally identifiable information (PII) or other confidential or sensitive information in tags. Tags are accessible to many Amazon Web Services, including Amazon Billing. For more tagging best practices, see Tagging your Amazon resources in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.
Remediation
To add tags to a Kinesis data stream, see Tagging your streams in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams in the Amazon Kinesis Developer Guide.